GE Aviation, SmartSky Networks, and Mosaic ATM Address Advance Air Mobility Safety
January 18 2022 - 2:08PM
Business Wire
Connecting airborne and cloud-based Flight
Management Systems for Advanced Air Mobility to optimize airspace
and maintain safety standards
GE Aviation announced a collaboration with SmartSky Networks and
Mosaic ATM to enhance Flight Management Systems (FMS) and Air
Traffic Management (ATM) for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM).
The combined work effort, conducted under a NASA Innovation
Award, uniquely connects the airborne and cloud-based FMS to
optimize airspace management while maintaining critical flight
safety controls and serves as a key enabler for AAM, which promises
to bring thousands more aircraft into the airspace in the coming
years.
“Advanced Air Mobility FMS presents unique space, power, and
processing requirements and GE Aviation, Mosaic ATM and SmartSky
Networks working together, have identified ways to address these
challenges,” said Gary Goz, product director, Navigation Systems,
GE Aviation. “By combining both airborne and cloud-based FMS
systems—coupled with a reliable, low latency network—we can address
processing needs while meeting critical safety standards for flight
control.”
“TrueCourse, GE’s latest generation FMS, with its modularized
architecture designed for today and the future, is ideally suited
to play this role,” added Brad Mottier, president of Systems for GE
Aviation.
The conceptualized cloud-based FMS will allow air traffic
controllers better real-time trajectory and airspace management
planning by expanding and optimizing available data inputs and
processing capabilities across a greater number of relevant
sources. In addition, enabling traffic flow management will
minimize delays and improve efficiencies required by environmental,
social and governance requirements, aiding sustainability planning
initiatives. Greater accuracy of onboard FMS outputs will also be
achieved through increased processing power and external
inputs.
David Claassen, chief technology officer, SmartSky Networks
says: “Fast access to data is central to ensuring the Advanced Air
Mobility sector can safely further its operations protocols. Our
work with GE Aviation and Mosaic ATM brings numerous benefits to
the domain by addressing regulatory challenges, maintaining
critical safety standards and providing a force multiplier for
airspace management.”
Todd Kilbourne, senior program manager, Mosaic ATM, adds:
“Working with SmartSky and GE Aviation allows our development of
next generation technologies and procedures for traffic management
systems to be fully utilized both on the ground and in the air.
Having dependable, high-speed, secure and interoperable
connectivity enables the cloud-based FMS to further enhance
National Airspace System (NAS) safety and improve capacity to the
benefit of all users.”
About SmartSky
SmartSky Networks was founded to transform aviation through
disruptive communications technologies, services, and tools. Its
innovative air-to-ground network is now available, with full CONUS
coverage coming in the first half of 2022. The network takes
advantage of patented spectrum reuse, advanced beamforming
technologies and 60 MHz of spectrum for significantly enhanced
connectivity. SmartSky Networks uniquely enables an “office in the
sky” experience with unmatched capacity for data transmissions both
to and from the aircraft. This real-time, very low latency,
bidirectional data link makes SmartSky Networks the best in-flight
user experience, and a key enabler for new and enhanced
applications and services. For more information, visit
SmartSkyNetworks.com
About Mosaic ATM
Mosaic ATM was formed in 2004 to continue aviation progress by
designing and developing the systems necessary to increase air
transportation capacity and efficiency while maintaining the
highest possible safety, security, and sustainability levels.
Through advanced research, user-centered design, development,
and software system prototyping, combined with a thorough
understanding of air transportation operations, Mosaic ATM provides
system solutions to achieve the mission.
About GE Aviation
GE Aviation, an operating unit of GE (NYSE: GE), is a
world-leading provider of jet engines, components and systems for
commercial and military aircraft. GE Aviation has a global service
network to support these offerings. For more information, visit us
at www.GEAviation.com. Follow GE Aviation on Twitter, YouTube,
LinkedIn and Instagram. GE Aviation is committed to a more
sustainable future of flight. Learn more here.
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